For >=KDE-4.2

This is another weather plasmoid.
It aims to be highly customizable, but a little harder to setup than other weather plasmoids.
Nearly any weather forecast provider can be used, as long as the data is provided as html files (no flash).
The information how to extract the information from these html files is stored inside xml files.
Commands like grep, head, tail, sed, awk, ... will do this job.

are included, but feel free to write your own ones.
Please note, that some of the xml files might not work properly for all locations.
If they don't, try to update your definition files: either install latest cwp release or/and download latest xml definition
file package from
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/show.php?content=98925
and unpack the xml files into ~/.kde4/share/apps/cwp (the cwp application folder inside your kde directory).

To access extended information about current weather condition, left-click inside the current weather description!
The time, when the provider updated his weather information is shown italic when clicked on update time.

CWP saves current weather data on exit inside $HOME/./share/apps/cwp folder, so after crashes you might want to clean up
this directory, or completely remove it.

Parts of the source code are taken from weather plasmoid 0.4, KDE 4.2, qimageblitz, yaWP.
Thanks to the developers!

If you experience any bugs, please report them here.
Running
plasmoidviewer plasma_applet_cwp
or starting plasma from the console
might give you some debug information.

Sorry, I currently don't have the time to do major modifications to the plasmoid. Probably, some similarity can be reached by playing around with CWP as it is now.

Freemeteo site changed

Hi. I just registered to post a thank you for a great plasmoid. I have been using it for years and I can't imagine my KDE desktop without it. I would like to ask you to have another look at the freemeteo site, they changed their layout and stuff and the plasmoid stopped fetching data from that site properly. I have changed to accuweather but I find freemeteo to be more accurate.

I could not find a problem in freemeteo. Probably, this was just a temporary problem? Anyway, you can try the latest version, it should work.

Re: Re: Freemeteo site changed

Hi, sorry for the misunderstanding, my fault. I am located in Greece and maybe it is only the Greek version of Freemeteo that changed (the layout of the Greek site definitely changed). They also changed their URL structure to Greeklish (Greek words with Latin characters. As an example, the 7 day forecast for Athens URL is:

Unfortunately, the site automatically redirects me to the Greek version and I can't seem to access the international version (with which the plasmoid probably still works). The Greek version gave URLs similar to the example you have in the plasmoid up until a week ago (when the plasmoid stopped working for me).

I would really appreciate your help in fixing this if it is easy (maybe tweak the plasmoid's settings or something), but if it's too much of a hassle, I'll just use another provider that works. Freemeteo was more reliable, that's all.

Re: Re: Re: Freemeteo site changed

Hmm. Strange. It does not redirect me to any other site than freemeteo.com.
Could you try to use
gid=264371&la=2
as location identifier? Or doesn't it work (for me it does, but it also does not redirect me)?

Re: Re: Re: Re: Freemeteo site changed

Hi again, no, using the identifier you mentioned does not work (tried it with the new version as well). It is the same identifier I was using before the site broke. gid=264371&la=2 makes the little network plug appear on top (as if no connection).

If I use gid=264371&station=5267&language=Greek&country=greece or portions of that the network plug goes away, but the data is obviously unreadable from the program, since I get no weather data.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Freemeteo site changed

OK, so I found a workaround. Obviously, freemeteo has some sort of IP filtering system or whatnot to redirect to a new Greek version, where the page has been redesigned from scratch more or less (Maybe they sold the Greek version, I don't know). All the divs and containers are named differently from the international version, and the layout is slightly different too.

Anyway, I downloaded your XML files and copied the one for freemeteo to a new one, only this time I changed the base URL to connect through a web proxy (Anonymouse) instead of connecting directly to the site. You need a proxy that does not keep session cookies in order to make this work. The plasmoid works fine with this workaround, I don't know for how long though. Yay!

I think it's not worth the trouble creating a new XML file just for the Greek version of freemeteo, especially since you don't have direct access to the Greek site. Maybe you could add a bit in the documentation reporting users of the problem. Otherwise, I could save an instance of the Greek site and send it to you to check out its structure.

How do you like Plasma 5? The best KDE Desktop ever. Definitely a nice improvement. Not decided yet. Haven't tried it yet. I do not like some of the changes. KDE is taking the wrong way. I am still sticking with KDE 3.5. I have no opinion, but wanted to vote anyway.

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